Two undercover Los Angeles Police Department detectives were wounded Tuesday morning in an ambush outside the LAPD's Wilshire Division station. The detectives were waiting to get into the station at 4861 W. Venice Blvd. between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. when a gunman lying in wait opened fire, according to law enforcement sources. Both officers were hurt, but their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, the sources said. PHOTOS: Two LAPD detectives shot in ambush A motive for the attack was unclear and a manhunt was underway.

BEIRUT - Syrian army units ambushed and killed a group of opposition fighters near Damascus, the capital, state media reported Saturday, saying that the group had crossed into the country from neighboring Jordan. The rebels, which Syria's state-run news agency said were attached to Islamist factions including the Islamic Front and Al Qaeda -linked Al Nusra Front, were monitored as they crossed the Syria-Jordan border before being engaged by army units in the city of Adra , 11 miles northeast of Damascus.

The mayor of a town in the troubled southern Philippines was among four people shot to death in an ambush outside Manila's international airport Friday, authorities reported. The fatal attack on Ukol Talumpa, mayor of Zamboanga del Sur in the Labangan area of Mindanao, was at least the third attempt on the politician's life in the last three years, raising suspicions that the unknown gunmen were motivated by the region's brutal political conflicts. Talumpa, his wife Lea, an 18-month-old baby and a staff member were attacked by at least two gunmen shortly after they arrived at the Manila airport from the regional town of Cebu, airport manager Angel Honrado told a news conference at the scene, the Philippine Star reported.

The mayor of a town in the troubled southern Philippines was among four people shot to death in an ambush outside Manila's international airport Friday, authorities reported. The fatal attack on Ukol Talumpa, mayor of Zamboanga del Sur in the Labangan area of Mindanao, was at least the third attempt on the politician's life in the last three years, raising suspicions that the unknown gunmen were motivated by the region's brutal political conflicts. Talumpa, his wife Lea, an 18-month-old baby and a staff member were attacked by at least two gunmen shortly after they arrived at the Manila airport from the regional town of Cebu, airport manager Angel Honrado told a news conference at the scene, the Philippine Star reported.

Mexican authorities Wednesday announced the arrest of a key suspect in the attempted assassination of a state security chief whose convoy was attacked with grenades and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. The suspect until recently was a police commander who also worked for the notorious drug cartel known as La Familia, authorities said. Minerva Bautista Gomez, security chief for the state of Michoacan, survived the April 24 ambush. Two of her bodyguards and two passing motorists were killed.

Times crime reporter Andrew Blankstein will join reporter Joseph Serna at 9 a.m. for an L.A. Now Live discussion about the latest developments in the search for suspects who opened fire on two LAPD detectives in an ambush early Tuesday morning. The officers -- veteran burglary detectives working undercover -- were treated at a hospital and released and are helping to try to identify the suspects. PHOTOS: Two LAPD detectives shot in ambush The detectives were attacked from behind between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. at the Wilshire substation at 4861 W. Venice Blvd.

Attackers armed with a grenade launcher and machine guns ambushed President Eduard A. Shevardnadze's motorcade in a 10-minute battle that killed one attacker and one bodyguard. The president escaped unharmed, aides said. State television showed the 70-year-old leader talking by phone later with Azerbaijan's president, assuring him, "I am OK." The attack took place in the capital, Tbilisi, as Shevardnadze's four-car motorcade was returning home.

WEBSTER, N.Y. -- William Spengler was known to his neighbors as the man who killed his 92-year-old grandmother with a hammer in 1980. He was also known as a quiet, nice guy. Spengler, 62, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after laying a trap Monday for local firefighters who responded to a blaze at his home on a slender spit of land here. He shot and killed two firefighters and seriously wounded two more. A police officer also was injured, and Spengler's sister, who lived with him at the home, was unaccounted for. After he got out of prison in 1998 and returned to the same neighborhood where he'd killed his grandmother, neighbors gossiped about his comings and goings.

Gunmen believed to be Maoist rebels killed at least 26 paramilitary personnel on Tuesday in a roadside ambush in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, authorities said. The gunfight, which lasted for about three hours, occurred about 3 p.m. in the state's heavily forested Bastar region as the 63-member Central Reserve Police Force patrol was returning from a "road-opening mission" in preparation for a threatened two-day rebel strike expected to start Wednesday. Maoist rebels, who control a large swath of Indian territory, often erect roadblocks in jungle areas they control, which the government tries to raze to reassert its authority.

Gunmen killed a mayor and four of his bodyguards in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. Mayor Thawos Khan died when assailants opened fire on his pickup in Khana Shien district of Helmand province, said Mohammed Wali, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Meanwhile, two rockets exploded overnight in a building in the capital, Kabul, in what NATO troops said was an attempt to lure police and troops into a trap. And in central Oruzgan province, a mine injured three election workers Friday.

Jameis Winston had just led Florida State to a 45-7 victory over Duke for the ACC title on Saturday, ensuring the Seminoles a spot in the BCS championship game next month. The star quarterback also was just two days removed from learning he would not be charged in a sexual assault investigation that had been looming over his head since last month. ESPN reporter Heather Cox has drawn some criticism - particularly from FSU fans and Winston's lawyer , Tim Jansen, who keeps tweeting about the incident - for focusing more on the latter topic during her postgame interview with Winston.

CAIRO -- At least 24 police officers were killed Monday when militants ambushed two mini-buses in the latest bloodshed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, where security forces have been battling emboldened Islamist extremists for months. Egyptian state TV reported that militants forced the off-duty police officers from the buses and shot them execution-style outside the town of Rafah, which borders Israel and the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. Other reports suggested that the officers were killed when the vehicles were struck by rocket-propelled grenades.

BEIRUT - It was an incident shrouded in mystery that occurred in one of the Middle East's most sensitive areas: the "Blue Line" demarcating the frontier between southern Lebanon and northern Israel. Shortly after midnight on Aug. 7, four Israel soldiers were wounded along the United Nations-designated line, which for the most part has been quiet since Israel and Hezbollah forces fought a monthlong war in 2006. After the incident, Israel issued a vague and terse statement saying its soldiers had suffered light to moderate injuries when an "explosion" occurred "during an overnight activity adjacent to the northern border.

BEIRUT -- Syrian government forces ambushed and killed more than 60 rebel fighters Wednesday in the suburbs of the capital Damascus, activists and state media reported. The fighters were walking before dusk near the industrial city of Adra when government forces opened fire on them with antiaircraft machine guns, said Musab Abu Qatada, spokesman for a key rebel group, the Damascus Military Council. He said 65 rebels were killed and three survived, though other sources gave slightly differing numbers.

MEXICO CITY - A wave of ambushes on federal police in the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan that has left two officers and 20 suspects dead were acts of desperation in response to the federal crackdown on criminal cartels, a government spokesman said Wednesday. Security spokesman Eduardo Sanchez's remarks, made in a radio interview, came a day after armed groups carried out six attacks on federal police in various locations across the southwestern state. On Wednesday, Mexican news reports said a seventh attack on police occurred Tuesday in an indigenous community near the port of Lazaro Cardenas, a key smuggling hub. Michoacan's interim governor, Jesus Reyna, said the unconfirmed toll was two officers killed and five wounded.

A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy serving an eviction notice Tuesday was shot before he got out of his car by one or more gunmen in another vehicle, authorities said. Sheriff's spokesman Lori Miller said it is believed the shooter or shooters were still in their vehicle when they opened fire on the deputies, who were in separate cars in the 1400 block of East Date Street near Del Rosa Avenue. The bullets pierced the front windshield of one of the two cruisers, striking the deputy, Miller said.

Gunmen opened fire on a smuggler and three illegal immigrants, causing their Chevrolet Blazer to plunge into a canal, where two of the passengers drowned, Riverside County sheriff's deputies said. The ambush occurred Saturday on a desert road north of the Salton Sea in Riverside County, about 130 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Deputies said the smuggler was driving a mother, her 14-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old man north when they came to a white van blocking the dirt road.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed and 17 were injured in an ambush in the Darfur region of western Sudan, U.N. officials announced Saturday. It was the second attack on U.N. peackeepers in Darfur this month, and the deadliest in the five years since their mission, UNAMID, began. A convoy of U.N. peacekeepers moving from one of their bases to another was fired on by unidentified attackers, triggering heavy fighting until reinforcements arrived.

The Los Angeles Police Department released a video Wednesday that it says shows the suspect believed to be responsible for ambushing two detectives outside the Wilshire Division. The officers suffered minor injuries, but the early morning shooting Tuesday set off a massive search that kept a segment of Mid-City on lockdown for hours. At a news conference Wednesday, Police Chief Charlie Beck revealed the photo of a black male, thought to be 30 to 35 years old, who appeared to be walking with an object in his hand.